NIS questions (hypothetical)

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Yes, you are :-). But all the responses were good.

On 03/03/2009 05:04 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> [I am really far behind on my email]
>
>
> Jerry Feldman writes:
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>> let's say I have 3 groups of users, groupa, groupb, and groupc. I want=

>> to allow groupa to be able to log in to some of the systems. I want
>> groupb to be able to log into other systems, and groupc should be able=

>> to log into all of the systems.
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>
> Suggestion: configure your systems to use PAM, and configure the login
> mechanisms that you are interested in to use "pam_access" for access
> control.
>
> Then in your /etc/security/access.conf, you could include a line like:
>
>    + : @groupa : ALL
>
> ...which would allow users in NIS group "groupa" to login to this
> particular machine.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --kevin
>  =20


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